corps

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English

Etymology 1

From French corps d’armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

singular
plural

Noun

corps (plural corps)

  1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
  2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
    diplomatic corps
    White House press corps
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Related terms
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *krep-‎ (0 c, 11 e)
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

  1. plural of corp

Etymology 3

Noun

corps (plural corpses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of corpse.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk , London: Hen. Brome , page 16:
      How to keep the corps ſeven dayes from corruption by anointing and waſhing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choiſeſt practiſe.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 597–601:
      To mee, who with eternal Famin pine, / Alike is Hell, or Paradiſe, or Heaven, / There beſt, where moſt with ravin I may meet; / Which here, though plenteous, all too little ſeems / To ſtuff this Maw, this vaſt unhide-bound Corps.
    • 1788, [Vicesimus Knox], Winter Evenings: or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters, volume II, Dublin: Messrs. Chamberlaine, Moncrieffe, White, , page 70:
      Did I poſſeſs the power of reſuſcitation, I would reanimate thy lifeleſs corps, and cheriſh thee in the warmeſt corner of thy favourite dwelling-place.
    • 1818, John Palmer, Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817: , London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, , page 92:
      The women looked like dead bodies; and never did I see such a sepulchral appearance as their dress and colourless faces exhibited, they were all dressed alike in drab gowns, white neck kerchiefs, and a cap fitting close over their ears, and fastened under the chin, the same sort as are placed on a corps.

Anagrams

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

  1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

  1. (chiefly Netherlands) student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
  2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”). The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

  1. body
  2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
  3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Karipúna Creole French: kó
  • → Danish: korps
  • → English: corps
  • → Dutch: corps, korps
  • → German: Korps
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: korps
  • → Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
  • → Romanian: corp (in part)
  • → Swedish: kår

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